"No... No... NO!" She screamed...
Sesshoumaru just stared at Kagome. He walked back to sit down in his spot when Rin came into the clearing.
"Rin stop it that instant, Sesshoumaru-sama wouldn't be pleased to find that you've been following him," the familiar voice of Sesshoumaru's servant followed her. Jaken looked around as he cleared the forest line and yelped as he spotted Sesshoumaru. "Ahh! Master Sesshoumaru! It wasn't Jaken's fault Rin followed you here!"
Sesshoumaru put on his clam, stone, impassive face and spoke coolly," Jaken come over here."
"Sesshoumaru-sama, Jaken forced Rin here!" Rin said playfully.
Miroku finally woke up from the commotion that was going on. He sat up right, looking at the scene before him. Sesshoumaru was listening to Jaken and Rin tell lies about who forced who to where. Then he saw Inuyasha and Kagome, to what looked like a passionate embrace. But upon closer inspection, the monk noticed that Inuyasha wasn't hugging back. Actually it didn't even appear like he was moving. He figured he would leave the two alone. Sesshoumaru slowly got up, and walked over to where Kagome was sitting.
"Hey, don't worry, I'm here," Sesshoumaru said reassuringly.
Kagome didn't even look up. "Just go away... Please."
"I'm just telling you, because brother died, all of his stuff belongs to me."
"Is that what you only care about! Your dam father's sword!" She got up and slapped Sesshoumaru hard on his face with her right hand. The sound resounded through the forest.
Everyone was shocked on what she just did. Sesshoumaru was shocked too, although he didn't show it. He just pushed Kagome into the nearest tree, which was about 10 feet away, in one hard push. She hit the tree in a resounding thud. She was about the scream when Sesshoumaru's hand wrapped around Kagome's neck and silenced her attempt.
"I guess you don't understand me." His voice didn't change, but the tone of his voice and the way he said it sent chills up her spine. "ALL of his stuff belongs to me now. I know his seed is inside of you."
"...What... No...Umm I ...Why do you care anyways! Its bad enough that he just died!" She started sobbing again, a few tears coming down her cheeks.
Sesshoumaru let go of the miko, letting her slump to the floor in her sadness. "I care that I follow the tradition held by any yokai family."
Rin and Jaken returned to their fighting after Rin dropped a fairly sized rock on the lowly servant. Miroku slowly got up and looked at the demon slayer that was sleeping besides him. He looked back at Sesshoumaru and Kagome. Just by looking at him, he could feel the silent growing tension between the two, almost how Kagome and Inuyasha first met. It sang through his mind that the hanyou was no longer part of this world. He felt a grief for Kagome, knowing how much they felt for each other. He looked back upon the demon slayer, who was still peaceful in her little sleep. Before he knew it, he felt his hand rub against her right breast.Before he knew it, he felt a hard hand slap on her face with a sound that echoed through the forest, awaking many birds from their nightly slumber.
"Grr monk..." Sango sat upright, touching her breast lightly, always silently hoping that the monk could do more to her.
"Old habits die hard." He monk smiled back at Sango, watching the tension in her face disappear slowly. He looked over to Sesshoumaru and Kagome.
"Come on... Let's go..." Sesshoumaru looked impassively on the miko who was reduced to weeping mess.
"I have a name you know..." Kagome's soft voice barely was audible to anyone else around them.
"Further more, you shall address me as Sesshoumaru-sama, like all my servants do. Lets go, I have a land to control..."
Kagome got up abruptly, irritated at the demon. She walked pass him, not even giving him a passing glance as she walked over to her other friends.
Sesshoumaru sighed silently. He turned around as he followed the girl.
"Stop following me," she said to Sesshoumaru. She sat down with Sango, feeling the tears build up behind her eyes again.
"What's wrong?" Sango asked, not aware of anything that just happened.
"San... Sango..." Kagome couldn't find the words, not wanting to accept the truth.
"Sango... Inuyasha is dead..." The monk had to speak for her.
"Oh my kami!" Sango blurted out. "Kagome, you're alright?" Her hand slowly patted the troubled girl on her back.
"It's alright Kagome," he said as he gave her a hug, rubbing her butt in the process. He was soon rubbing his head again as Sango's boomerang made contact to his skull.
The wind suddenly picked up; the clouds above them thickened and darkened, blotting out the sun.
"Great," Sesshoumaru said as he noticed the abrupt change and the awful smell that approached. The sounds in the forest abruptly stopped, leaving only the sounds of Kagome's weeping. Rin and Jaken drew closer to Sesshoumaru, Jaken holding his Staff of Heads closely to him.
Kagome stopped sobbing, noticing something was wrong. The forest and the sky were suddenly flooded with demons, covering every space available to them. With no pause the demons hurled themselves at the battle weary group
"These are the demons that Naraku absorbed..." Sesshoumaru noted.
The monk appeared to say something but his voice was drowned out by the ear screeching shouts of the hundreds of demons.
Kagome noticed Shippo still unconscious on the ground and went to go get him. He was held back by Sesshoumaru.
"No... It's too late..." His impassive face looked upon the miko, her face lined with tear marks.
"Let go!" She struggled out from his grasp and started running towards the unconscious kitsune.
"Wind tunnel!" The monk's cry was heard above the roar of demons. It hit him that he no longer had the destructive hole in his hand. Sango passed his staff to him, knowing the monk would forget.
"Hiraikotsu!" Sango shouted as she threw boomerang, tearing through the demons, bringing destruction where it went.
Kagome finally reached Shippo, who was waking up to the noisy racket. "Are Kagome and Inuyasha fighting again...?" The kitsune first words were as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. Kagome embraced her child, fearing she would lose another loved one.
She looked up to see a demon with green saliva oozing from its nostrils ready to bring down its abnormally large hands on her. She dropped the fox and brought up her hands to shield herself.
The blow never came and when she opened her eyes, a large gash had appeared across the demon. A feeling of pain spread across its face as it slowly disintegrated into nothing.
Sesshoumaru came into view and picked Kagome up. Shippo noticed what was going around them and latched into Kagome's hair as Sesshoumaru carried her back. Kagome didn't even know how Sesshoumaru managed to carry her and repel the demons that were coming after her at the same time with only one arm.
Sango and Miroku backs were together, most of the demons were still intact formed a tight circle around the demon slayer and monk, who were tiring out extremely quickly. Sesshoumaru dropped Kagome with them.
He drew out his Toukijin coolly, like the whole fight wasn't happening. He held his sword parallel to the wall of demons that had formed at Sango and Miroku. "Dragon strike," he said uninterested. Even before he finished the word blue bolts arched above the humans, destroying everything in it touched as they radiated outwards.
"Wow…" Miroku said as he watched the attack, awe showing on his face.
"Sesshoumaru-sama hasn't even started the attack…" Jaken added in, never being so close to the attack.
The blue bolts suddenly stopped moving away but now all merged together above Sesshoumaru's head. The ball of static surged forward and took the shape of a dragon, which ran a circle around the group and dissipated, along with demons who survived the initial attack.
There was an uneasy silence as Sesshoumaru sheathed his sword. "That wasn't even close to what Naraku absorbed…" The monk finally broke the silence.
"I know..." Sango looked worried.
"Lets go. This Sesshoumaru detests getting covered with this filth." Sesshoumaru started walking west, towards his lands.
"Wait!" Kagome just stood there. "We can at least take Inuyasha with us." She looked at the hanyou who she care for and loved so much.
Sango's, Miroku's, and Shippo's faces darkened knowing that a fight was about to follow her orders.
"Did you hear me?" Kagome just looked at Sesshoumaru, still walking away. "Ignorant pup!" She grabbed her bow on the floor. She notched an arrow and fired it at Sesshoumaru a second later. The arrow sped through the forest lighting the way with the miko's power. It passed by Sesshoumaru by a hair. Sesshoumaru stopped in his tracks, his attention finally caught.
Kagome had to make sure she even did that. A rush of anger took over her and the next thing she knew, an arrow sped by Sesshoumaru. There was an eerie silence in the forest. Sesshoumaru turned around; his eyes seemed blood-shot for a second.
Her two friends beside her had their weapons ready, but they knew if he attacked, they would be overwhelmed. He started walking towards the three, which became four as Shippo forced himself in front of Kagome.
Sesshoumaru kept on walking until he was about one good stride away from the group. Rin and Jaken were behind a tree behind Sesshoumaru. Kirara descended into the clearing that was away previously tending for her litter. Sesshoumaru strode towards Inuyasha and lifted him into Kirara's back.
The tension from the group subsided as he did this. Sango ran towards the now feline Kirara. Sesshoumaru glared at Kagome, anger burning in his eyes. It quickly disappeared to his impassive face again. "Let's go..." Sesshoumaru ended the tension, walking into the forest, everyone following with out any problems.